This administrative caption card accompanied an official U.S. Navy photograph taken aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80). Dated September 9, 1945 — one week after Japan's formal surrender — the card was routed to the ship's Air Department and bears the standard Bureau of Aeronautics restriction stamp prohibiting publication. Petrof Bay, a Casablanca-class escort carrier, had supported major Pacific campaigns including Leyte Gulf, Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Items such as this illustrate the extensive paper trail the Navy maintained for its wartime and immediate postwar photographic archive. Project: 218460